Member of bronze medal-winning Team Sweden, 2014 IIHF World Championship, May 25, 2014.

Member of gold-medal winning Team Sweden, 2018 IIHF World Championship, May 20, 2018.

FIRSTS:

Anders made his National Hockey League debut on November 19, 2011, at Nassau Coliseum, as the Islanders hosted the Bruins. Backing up Rick DiPietro, Nilsson was inserted into the game at the start of the second period, with New York trailing by a 3-0 margin. Nilsson stopped 14 of 17 Bruins shots, and the team ultimately fell, 6-0.

NHL PENALTY SHOTS:

DATE

SHOOTER

GOAL?

NOTES

10/29/2016

Vincent Trocheck

N

11/11/2016

Andy Greene

Y

Overtime

02/14/2019

Andreas Athanasiou

Y

NHL SHOOTOUTS:

DATE

DEC

OPPONENT

GF

GA

01/20/2014

W

Philadelphia

3

2

Vincent Lecavalier

Claude Giroux

Matt Read

Sean Couturier

03/29/2014

W

New Jersey

2

0

Adam Henrique

Patrik Elias

04/11/2014

W

New Jersey

3

1

Damien Brunner

Jaromir Jagr

04/13/2014

W

Buffalo

1

0

Tyler Ennis

Cody Hodgson

Ville Leino

11/28/2015

W

Pittsburgh

2

0

David Perron

Sidney Crosby

12/02/2015

W

Boston

1

0

Patrice Bergeron

Brad Marchand

David Krejci

10/25/2016

L

Philadelphia

0

2

Nick Cousins

Claude Giroux

Jakub Voracek

11/19/2016

W

Pittsburgh

1

0

Sidney Crosby

Evgeni Malkin

Kris Letang

12/17/2016

L

Carolina

0

2

Lee Stempniak

Sebastian Aho

03/17/2017

W

Anaheim

3

2

Jakob Silfverberg

Ryan Getzlaf

Rickard Rakell

Corey Perry

Patrick Eaves

Cam Fowler

Antoine Vermette

Ryan Kesler

Brandon Montour

Nick Ritchie

04/07/2018

L

Edmonton

2

3

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Connor McDavid

Michael Cammalleri

Leon Draisaitl

DID YOU KNOW?

On February 7, 2019, Anders stopped 45 shots in a 4-0 Ottawa victory over Anaheim.

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